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NEWS & LETTERS, March 2004Oakland youth protestOakland, Cal.--Three students from the School of Social Justice and Community Development, an alternative high school in Oakland, addressed a rally on Feb. 26 calling for an investigation of the police officers who detained them on Feb. 20 during their off-campus lunch. They were illegally searched, threatened with physical violence, and subjected to racial slurs by white officers. When the teachers asked why their students were being detained, officer Glover stated sarcastically "under reasonable suspicion of being Black." At the rally Arsenio Johnson said he can’t walk down the street without being harassed by the police. Derrick Taylor said he felt terrorized by officer McGuinn, who repeatedly searched the genital area of at least one student. John Barclay said he does not feel safe anymore. He said, "We are intelligent, we’re trying to do something with our lives. We do not deserve this." --Urszula Wislanka |
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